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<Ie la Sociefe Entomolo(jlque de France, ilepuis 1832 jusqu^d 1859. Par 

 Alexandre StrancJt. 1 Vol. 8vo. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



Letters were read 



From tlie Smithsonian Institution at Washington, I). C, acknowledging 

 the receipt of Vol. 1, No. 5, of the Society's Proceedings. 



From the Secretary of the Entomological Society of London, dated 12 

 Bedford How, December 3rd, 18G2, acknowledging the receipt of recent 

 numbers of the Society's Proceedings. 



From Mr. Harvey J. Rich, dated Brooklyn, N. Y., December 14, 1862; 

 Dr. Beverley R. Morris, dated Toronto, C. W., December 26th, 1862, and 

 B. Billings, Jr., dated Prescott, C. W., December 30th, 1862, severally 

 acknowledging their election as Corresponding Members of the Society. 



The following papers were presented for publication in the Proceedings: 

 " Descriptions of a few new species of North American Coleoptera, by 

 James H. B. Bland." 



" Catalogue of our known species of Ophion, Anomalon, Paniscus and 

 Campoplex, by Edward Norton." 



" Lasioptera reared from a gall on the golden rod, by Baron R. Osten 

 Sacken." 



" Importance of Insect Architecture to Entomologists, and Remarks 

 on Tent-Building Ants, by William Couper." 



And were referred to Committees. 



ELECTIONS. 



The following gentlemen were elected Gurres^wndlng Members of the 

 Society : — 



John Xantus, of Washington, D. C. 



C. Sartorius, M. D., of Mexico. 



M. Miles, of Lansing, Michigan. 



George D. Smith, of Boston, Massachusetts. 



Edward L..Graef, of Brooklyn, New York. 



